Denoising ICF Images with Multiplicative Uniform Noise: A Self-Supervised Study Based on the Log-Domain Noisier2Inverse Framework

This paper documents the implementation and evaluation of a self-supervised denoising framework on Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) images corrupted by Multiplicative Uniform noise: the Log-Domain Noisier2Inverse framework. This framework is developed and analysed in this work; the key theoretical result -- that minimising the log-domain self-supervised loss is equivalent to supervised learning in the transformed domain -- is presented with full proof. We document significant implementation challenges arising from the unique characteristics of ICF imagery, describe the fixes applied at each stage, and report final quantitative results. The log-domain approach with per-image JSON Uniform noise loading (Variant~B) achieves the best result: a mean PSNR of 21.41db and SSIM of 0.8358, a +19.46db improvement over the noisy input baseline of 1.95db, substantially outperforming BM3D log-domain (4.47db, SSIM 0.5181) and Noise2Self (4.75db, SSIM 0.0177). Variant~A, using fixed Gaussian noise loading, achieves 21.39db PSNR and SSIM 0.8436. Of the three evaluated methods, Log-Domain Noisier2Inverse and Noise2Self are entirely self-supervised during training, requiring no clean ground truth data; BM3D is a classical filter-based method requiring no training at all. The clean reference images are used solely for quantitative evaluation of all three methods.